Take a Break from your Daily Routine, Day 5 The Art of Nature Therapy
Daily Meditation Podcast
Mary Meckley
4.1 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 30 June 2022
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Soothe frazzled nerves from your daily routine as you relax into the peace of nature therapy.
This week, we launch into a meditation series designed to help you connect with the natural world. You'll explore the ancient art of Japanese Forest Bathing. Immerse yourself in the healing powers of nature. In this week's series, you'll discover how nature becomes therapy.
This is day 5 of a 7-day meditation series, The Art of Forest Bathing, episodes 2684-2690.
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All meditations are created by Mary Meckley and are her original content. Please request permission to use any of Mary's content by sending an email to Mary@sipandom.com.Let go of repetitive negative thoughts.
This week, you are invited to take part in an emotional healing journey. You'll be guided through 7-steps to heal your emotions. It's all too common to conceal your reactions to stressors in life and to neglect your emotions. This week, you'll be guided to honor your emotional state.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode 2688 of Your Daily Meditation Podcast. |
| 0:06.8 | I'm Mary Mechley and I'm honored you are here as you get ready to give your self permission |
| 0:13.8 | to slow down so you can connect to that best part of who you are. |
| 0:20.8 | That's the part of yourself you cultivate each time you show up for yourself and meditate. |
| 0:26.9 | So here you are getting ready to calm your mind. |
| 0:33.9 | In today's episode you're going to be guided with a few meditation techniques from the book |
| 0:41.6 | The Joy of Forest Bathing. |
| 0:44.5 | We continue along with our series involving nature therapy and we've been focusing on what |
| 0:52.2 | is termed as forest bathing. |
| 0:55.6 | A Japanese art where you go outside in nature or even inside around any kind of plants or |
| 1:05.6 | anything, even a photo that helps you to feel immersed in nature and this is considered to |
| 1:13.7 | and in fact scientifically it's proven it calms your mind and body and can even boost your |
| 1:21.7 | immune system especially if you're outdoors inhaling, fight insides, this is what plants, |
| 1:30.5 | especially tall green trees emit that you inhale and it helps to lower your stress hormones |
| 1:40.2 | among many other things. |
| 1:42.2 | So as you are guided in today's meditation, know that if you'd like to go a little more deeply |
| 1:50.0 | into this series or any series, I actually interviewed an author who wrote the book The Joy |
| 1:58.0 | of Forest Bathing, her name is Melanie Chokas Bradley and this is an interview that's offered |
| 2:06.4 | on my meditation app for this week's series. |
| 2:10.0 | You can explore the interview as well as the entire week's series free including over 2000 |
| 2:18.0 | guided meditations. |
| 2:19.8 | This is over on the Cip and Om meditation app. |
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